The call for applications for this year’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program has closed on October 31st and we are happy to announce that we have received nine applications. We are very delighted to have a geographically and culturally rich cohort of candidates this year. It is always a delight to be able to assist Oregon culture bearers with sharing their narratives and highlighting their traditions.
The program will offer four folk and traditional master artists and culture keepers a $3,500 stipend to teach their art form to apprentices from their same communities, Tribes, sacred or occupational groups. The stipend supports master artists in sharing their knowledge, skills, and expertise with apprentices of great promise, empowering them to carry on and strengthen Oregon’s living cultural traditions. Artists may make public presentations through the Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon.
We look forward to announcing our 2023 TAAP awardees and to supporting and celebrating the work they do in transmitting and representing their craft and cultural traditions.
Oregon Folklife Network encourages Oregonians practicing cultural traditions emerging from their heritage or Tribes to start considering taking part in our future TAAP cycle.
To learn more about application procedures and eligibility or to recommend a TAAP applicant, visit mnch.uoregon.edu/OFN-Programs, email ofn@uoregon.edu, or call 541-346-3820. Oregon Folklife Network staff members are available to provide application advice, recommendations and feedback and will direct you to resources to help you with the application process prior to submission.
dinator. Timothy recently graduated with a PhD in cultural anthropology at the University of Oregon and has previous experience as a program coordinator for Centro Latino Americano. In addition to bringing deep skills for working reciprocally with communities, Timothy is a Spanish speaker. He will be the primary contact for the Traditional Arts and Apprenticeship Program (TAAP), the Cultural Keepers Roster, Culture Fest, and the Statewide Survey.
egree in Folklore at the UO. She spent her summer internship at OFN coordinating Oregon Culture Nights events and interviewing and documenting Ukrainian folk artists in Oregon – weavers, singers, embroiderers, pysanka artists, and doll makers. Iryna wishes to express her deepest gratitude to OFN for offering her the opportunity to reconnect with her homeland’s culture while being so far away from home, and for allowing her to learn first-hand how public folklore organizations such as OFN can help amplify the voices of underrepresented and oppressed communities, and help one find meaning during the darkest of times. Iryna hopes to continue her internship with OFN and her work with Ukrainian artists in the fall term.
is a MA student in the folklore program at the University of Oregon. She is interested in areas of vernacular culture in the Maghreb region of North Africa. Her research is focused on the performance of folk religion within a number of Sufi orders in Tunisia. Before turning to folklore, she worked as an instructor of English at the University of Gabès. She holds a B.A. in Anglo-American studies from the Ecole Normale of Tunis and an agrégation degree from the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Humanities of Manouba.
Culture. She completed her undergraduate degree in Journalism and Humanities with a Minor in Music at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests center around studying decolonial theory in storytelling, myths, and legends, and how individual experiences influence the collective memory of history. In her free time, Erin likes to ski, paint, and play music.
master’s degree in Folklore and Public Culture at UO. She got her bachelor’s degree from Western Oregon University in cultural anthropology and linguistics. As a descendant of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and Pechanga, she is interested in cultural sustainability and language revitalization within native communities and hopes to work with those native communities in the future. Her work here at OFN has given her inspiration and experience for working with folklife and amplifying indigenous voices. Her interests in folklore are ever-changing and evolving and she looks forward to researching the connection to folklore in our identity and expressions.
curated a Tiny Gallery exhibit Amplifying Ukrainian Voices, devoted to Ukrainian folk artists in Oregon. The exhibit is part of the Knight Library’s Tiny Galleries project that aimed to transform historic phone booths into places for UO students to present their research and engage with a wider community. Curating this exhibit offered Iryna a chance to present some of the results of her research with OFN, which focused on documenting living Ukrainian heritage in Oregon. Amplifying Ukrainian Voices tells stories of Ukrainian traditional artists living in Oregon and offers a glimpse into Ukraine’s history and culture.
